The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

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In The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday traces his ancestral roots back to the beginning of the Kiowa tribe. While Momaday seems to have always known about his ancestry, the death of his grandmother prompts a deeper and more personal exploration of his family background. In order to get as close as possible to his roots, Momaday returns to his Grandmother's house where the spirit of the Kiowa tribe is very...

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The Way to Rainy Mountain

5,660 words, approx. 19 pages

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday Born February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma, Navarre Scott Momaday was reared in New Mexico and Arizona as well as Oklahoma. He is of mixed Kiowa, Euro... Read more

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N. Scott Momaday

1,741 words, approx. 6 pages

N. Scott Momaday (born 1934) is recognized as one of the premier writers in the United States. In 1969, his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction.One of the most distingu... Read more

N. Scott Momaday

5,018 words, approx. 17 pages

Dubbed "the man made of words," N. Scott Momaday is a Native American poet, novelist, storyteller, and artist. "It is an identity that pleases me," the author wrote in the preface to In the Presence o... Read more

N. Scott Momaday

13 words, approx. 1 pages

"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

7,205 words, approx. 25 pages

N. Scott Momaday is the dean of American Indian authors. (Indians, especially in Oklahoma and the Southwest, use the term Indian. Academics are the ones who chiefly use Native American.) Momaday's nov... Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

7,957 words, approx. 27 pages

When N. Scott Momaday received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), the literary community recognized the arrival of a major contemporary Native American... Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

9,739 words, approx. 33 pages

In 1969, the same year that N. Scott Momaday began his tenure as associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fi... Read more